The effects of glutathione glycoside in methyl mercury poisoning

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 357-364

  Choi, Ben H ^a,b   Yee, Simon ^a   Robles, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DERIVATIVE; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; MERCURIALISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030472542     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0300     Document Type: Article

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